A History of Christianity- BBC Documentary

 I've recently become interested in learning about the history of religion. This is a big undertaking, but I think in doing so I am learning about a whole host of issues encompassing political history, the history of ideas, cultural history, art and literary history as well as the history of myth-making itself.

A History of Christianity is a six-part British television series originally broadcast on BBC Four in 2009. The series was presented by Diarmaid MacCulloch, Professor of History of the Church at St Cross College Oxford, and considers the evolution of the Christian faith and its four main forms: Orthodoxy, Oriental Christianity, Western Catholicism and Protestantism.

Episode 2: Catholicism - The Unpredictable Rise of Rome
Episode 3: Orthodoxy - From Empire to Empire
Episode 4: Reformation - The Individual Before God
Episode 5: Protestantism - The Evangelical Explosion
Episode 6: God in the Dock

Thanks to the Atheist Media blog for the great find.

Saturday Night Music: Radiohead- House of Cards

I love this video. It looks as if it was made by an electron scanning microscope... Well, the truth is that the technology behind the images in the video is not all that unlike the technology behind the electron scanning microscope, just with lasers instead of electrons.

Here is an incredibly revealing video as to how it was made.

Mr. Deity and the Showroom

I got a few of the Star Wars references, but I could tell there were more from the dialogue. I'm just not that big of a geek.

Japan Airlines' CEO pays himself less than the pilots, takes the bus to work

I saw this on Boing Boing today and thought that this is an excellent example of how a CEO of a major company might deal with an economic downturn and at the same time boost the morale of the workers he is employing.

The Swans live show

I don't know exactly what I was expecting when I saw the Swans last night, but what I got was better than anything I could have imagined. I've seen them three or four times in the 1990's and they were doing their folk influenced work during much of that.

What I got last night was the sonic onslaught they were famous for during the mid-eighties part of their career and my ears are still ringing from it. It is amazing to me that no band since then has managed to orchestrate that level of bombastic noise into something so beautiful... And then last night, some old guys with gray hair walked onstage and showed the youngsters how it's done... twenty-five years later.

They did two old songs, I Crawled from the Raping a Slave EP (1984) and Sex, God, Sex from Children of God (1986). I found video footage from both of those songs at other stops from the tour.

Hatred of Atheists

Notes and facts about the most hated and feared minority...
I've seen many of these statistics before, but this person brings them all together nicely into one thoughtful and well argued video.
From www.freedomainradio.com 

Baby trashes bar

I saw this on Boing Boing today and had to share.